MacBook Pro
 
Intel 4x faster Intel Core Duo

You’ve seen improvements in notebook performance before — but never on this scale. The Intel Core Duo powering MacBook Pro is actually two processors built into a single chip. This, combined with myriad other engineering leaps, boosts performance up to four times higher than the PowerBook G4. With this awesome power, it’s a breeze to render complex 3D models, enjoy smooth playback of 1080p HD video or host a four-way video conference.

Intel Core Duo

More power, using less power

Intel Core Duo is the first chip built using Intel’s groundbreaking 65-nanometre process — resulting in transistors so small, you could fit a hundred inside a single human cell. With smaller distances for electrons to travel, and two processors designed to share resources and conserve power, Intel Core Duo achieves higher levels of performance as it uses fewer watts. Which is what makes it possible to design a super-powerful MacBook Pro that’s only one inch thin.

Universal Binary

Software just works

When Mac technology makes something easy, it’s hardly news. So here’s more non-news for MacBook Pro owners: software just works. If you see the Universal logo on a new application, that means it will run on Intel- or PowerPC-based Mac computers. For most existing applications, you simply do what you’ve always done: double-click them. Thanks to the Rosetta technology in Mac OS X, they look and feel just like they did before (1).

  1. Get more information on Rosetta supported Apple software. Contact the manufacturer directly for third-party software.
  2. Testing conducted by Apple in December 2005 using pre-production 15-inch MacBook Pro units with 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo; all other systems were shipping units. Estimated SPECint_rate_base2000 score: 30.3. Estimated SPECfp_rate_base2000 score: 25.6. SPEC is a registered trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC); see www.spec.org for more information. All of the MacBook Pro and PowerBook systems ran a beta Universal version of Cinebench. Other benchmarks were compiled using beta versions of Intel and IBM compilers for Mac OS.
  3. Times faster than 15-inch PowerBook G4 with 1.67GHz PowerPC. Testing conducted by Apple in January 2006 using pre-production 15-inch MacBook Pro units with 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo; all other systems were shipping units. All of the MacBook Pro and PowerBook systems ran beta Universal versions of Modo application. All other applications were beta versions.